Performance Chat Summary: 27 August 2024

The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

Upcoming WordPress 6.7 release

We reviewed the 6.7 milestone for performance focus tickets.

#61103 (marked as an early ticket) – @flixos90 had just reviewed, and @pbiron will update the PR.
#61847 – @mukesh27 is working on a PR for this.
@adamsilverstein shared that he had a couple of small AVIF fixes that he’s planning to move to the milestone

Table of Contents

The current milestones can be found at https://github.com/WordPress/performance/milestones, and the release date is Sept 16. @joemcgill questioned whether this date will conflict with WCUS that week.

@adamsilverstein is working on a PR for the Modern Images plugin to include converting upload PNGs in addition to JPEGs that I hope will be ready for the next release.
@thelovekesh is working on Web Worker Offloading(WWO) plugin to make it ready for WPOrg. Ongoing tasks:
- https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1468
- https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1455

Refer to the overview issues in our GH Project board.

Investigate INP improvements (@adamsilverstein)
- Nothing new, Adam is planning to do a follow up post about INP to the WP developer blog
Improving the calculation of image sizes attributes (@joemcgill)
- @mukesh27 is working on defining the next phase of work related to accounting for ancestor blocks
Enable client side modern image generation (@swissspidy)
- Pascal is working on smaller GB PRs for client-side media, all step by step for easier reviews.
Enhance onboarding experience for Performance Lab
- @flixos90 would like to see this get more focus and asked for folks to give feedback to his proposal in issue 1032.
- @swissspidy suggested that we do more user research during WCUS before spending too much more time on this effort. This was discussed during open floor but no actions were decided.